Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Alveley Primary School is the nearest published school at 32 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV15 6LX
Bridgnorth South & Alveley · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire
- Postcode district
- WV15
- Postcode sector
- WV15 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV15 6LX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 1984
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV15
- Postcode sector
- WV15 6
- Latitude
- 52.459751
- Longitude
- -2.347283
- British National Grid easting
- 376,500
- British National Grid northing
- 284,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Bridgnorth South & Alveley · E05016021
- Parish or community
- E04011205
- Westminster constituency
- South Shropshire · E14001493
- Output area
- E00146824
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 034B · E01028829
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 034 · E02006013
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore WV15
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 32 m
Alveley Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 3.0 km
Highley Community Primary School
Community school
- 4.4 km
Upper Arley CofE Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 32
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 10
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Burglary 4
- Vehicle crime 4
- Criminal damage and arson 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WV15 6 residents
- 4,410
Age bands in WV15 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 34.9%
508 residents
369 residents
696 residents
1,291 residents
1,535 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
ALVELEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
ALVELEY, ALVELEY, BRIDGNORTH, WV15 6NG
ODS code M82601
691 m
Nearby transport
- 1.7 miles
Lion Lane Crossroads
BCT · Shatterford
- 1.8 miles
Lion Lane Crossroads
BCT · Shatterford
- 2.6 miles
Arley Forge
BCT · Upper Arley
- 2.7 miles
Arley Forge
BCT · Upper Arley
- 2.7 miles
Church
BCT · Upper Arley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 034B, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,450 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
32 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.